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Phoenix

Fire devours historic Norwegian village, 90 people hospitalized


RT
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:50 UTC
A fire blasts over a house, destroying many of the famed 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses
© AFP Photo / NTB / Arne Veum NorwayA fire blasts over a house, destroying many of the famed 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses in the village Laerdal, southern Norway, on January 19, 2014.
Ninety people have been treated in hospital and 30 properties burnt to the ground in a massive fire in the western Norwegian village Laerdal, on Sognefjord fjord listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Scores of people have been evacuated from the heritage village of 1,150 as around 100 personal from the emergency services battle to put out the flames. Police also fear that gas canisters at a nearby industrial facility may explode and the area has been cordoned off.

The work of firefighters is being hampered by strong winds and police told Norwegian TV they were trying to bring in a helicopter to help contain the fire but that it was being delayed by media drones, which were operating in the area.
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Stormtrooper

Philadelphia teen suffers ruptured testicle during police 'patdown'

Travis Gettys
The Raw Story
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:49 UTC
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© Raw Story16-year old Darrin Manning
A straight-A student suffered a ruptured testicle during a patdown by Philadelphia police and was then charged with resisting arrest.

Darrin Manning told The Philadelphia Inquirer he got off the subway Jan. 7 on his way to play in a high school basketball game with a dozen teammates wearing their team uniforms and hats, gloves and scarves given to them by a teacher.

Police claim the boys were wearing ski masks, but the teens said they had covered their faces with scarves because it was cold outside.

The 16-year-old student at Mathematics, Civics & Sciences Charter School said one of his teammates may have smarted off to an officer staring them down, and he said the boys ran when the police officer approached them.

Manning admits that he ran at first out of fear, but then he stopped.

"I didn't do anything wrong," he said.

Police records show that Manning, who is black, fought with Officer Thomas Purcell, who is white, after he stopped running, striking the officer three times and ripping off his police radio.

Manning said he was roughed up, struck with handcuffs and then placed in those handcuffs, and the teen said a female officer pulled his genitals so hard during a patdown that one of his testicles ruptured.

"She patted me down and then she touched my butt and then my private parts, and then she grabbed and squeezed and pulled my private parts and I felt something pop," Manning said.
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Pistol

Illinois school put into prison-style lockdown when single .22 caliber round found in gym


Police State USA
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:11 UTC
Palestine High School
© WTHI TV
Palestine - A high school was put into complete lockdown when someone found a single .22 caliber round in the gymnasium.

Not a gun. Just a single bullet.

The incident happened Wednesday, January 15th at around 11:00 a.m. Someone found the tiny bullet and - instead of discarding it - took things to the absolute extreme. Superintendent Joe Sornberger placed the school into lockdown and called for police to search the entire school.

Students were confined to their classrooms for two and a half hours, as police searched the school and all of their personal property. The bullet was used as probable cause to warrantlessly search students' lockers and their personal vehicles that were parked on school property, according to WTHI TV. Anything inside lockers or vehicles was evidently fair game for a search: purses, backpacks, coat pockets, and whatever else the police felt like snooping through.

The Palestine Police Department and the Crawford County Sheriff's Office participated in the lockdown and warrantless search.

Nothing was reported found. After an extensive search, the lockdown was lifted at 1:30 p.m.
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Eye 1

"Oops, I did it again": Serial killer Joanna Dennehy bragged about murders to accomplice before two more stabbings

Vicky Smith
Daily Mirror
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:04 UTC
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Trial: Joanna Dennehy
Stony-faced serial killer Joanna Dennehy bragged about her killing spree to an alleged accomplice by glibly remarking: "Oops, I did it again."

A court heard of the chilling admission along with two terrifying accounts of men who survived separate knife attacks by evil Dennehy.

During one of the bloodthirsty assaults, Dennehy told her petrified victim, "I'm going to f***ing kill you" as she repeatedly stabbed him.

A friend of hers also claimed how Dennehy had boasted about killing a total of eight people.

It came to light during the trial of Gary Stretch, 47, and Leslie Layton, 37, who are accused of helping Dennehy, 31.

The twisted mother-of-two has already admitted murdering John Chapman, 56, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and her landlord Kevin Lee, 49.

She stabbed the three men in the heart and dumped their bodies in ditches in Cambridgeshire in late March last year.

However, a retired firefighter told Cambridge crown court how he almost became another victim when she launched an attack on him days later in April.
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Bizarro Earth

Mad world: Two toddlers stabbed to death by their own mother who thought she was performing exorcism

Dan Morse and DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:44 UTC
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© Montgomery County Police DepartmentZakieya Latrice Avery, 28, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
A Germantown mother and another woman accused of killing two toddlers and trying to kill two other children believed that they were releasing demonic spirits that had possessed the siblings, Montgomery County police said Saturday.

The two dead children - a boy, Norell Harris, 1, and a girl, Zyana Harris, 2 - were found Friday morning on their mother's bed in a Germantown townhouse. Both had been stabbed repeatedly, police said. A sister, Taniya Harris, 5, and a brother, Martello Harris, 8, were seriously injured but are expected to survive.

Police said the women thought that they were performing an exorcism, although it did not appear they had followed any ritual.

"This was all about what was in their minds," said Capt. Marcus Jones, commander of the county's major crimes unit. "They felt like there was something bad going on with the children, and they were trying to release it."
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Road Cone

Controversy over pubic hair on NYC store window mannequins


The Raw Story
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:14 UTC
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US clothing chain American Apparel has sparked controversy by putting mannequins sprouting pubic hair in the windows of their shop in New York's boho Lower East Side.

Passersby stopped to gawk, take photographs, chuckle or raise a horrified eyebrow at the stick-thin plastic models decked out in see-through bras and panties, with bushy bikini lines.

Many people consider women's body hair a private embarrassment requiring painful grooming at beauty salons, and find the display shocking and provocative.

But American Apparel, which in the past has been accused of sexist and controversial marketing campaigns, said it was celebrating "natural beauty" in the run-up to the Valentine's Day rush.

"We invite passers-by to explore the idea of what is 'sexy,' consider their comfort with the natural female form - and perhaps most importantly - to come in and try on some of our favorite styles of the season," said creative director Iris Alonzo.

Layla Khabiri, who works in a wine bar and lives round the corner, called it a "cheap ploy" designed to drive up sales, but found it interesting for being a "little counter-culture."
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Che Guevara

We are all living Pasolini's Theorem

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:17 UTC
Pasolini
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In the early morning of November 2, 1975, in Idroscalo, a terminally dreadful shanty town in Ostia, outside Rome, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini, then 53, an intellectual powerhouse and one of the greatest filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, was found badly beaten and run over by his own Alfa Romeo.

It was hard to conceive a more stunning, heartbreaking, modern mix of Greek tragedy with Renaissance iconography; in a bleak setting straight out of a Pasolini film, the author himself was immolated just like his main character in Mamma Roma (1962) lying in prison in the manner of the Dead Christ, aka the Lamentation of Christ, by Andrea Mantegna.

This might have been a gay tryst gone terribly wrong; a 17-year-old low life was charged with murder, but the young man was also linked with the Italian neo-fascists. The true story has never emerged. What did emerge is that "the new Italy" - or the aftereffects of a new capitalist revolution - killed Pasolini.


Comment: He was killed at a time when the Gladio network was very active.
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Arrow Down

American organ market: Cash for kidneys

Gary S. Becker & Julio J. Elias
The Wall Street Journal
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:43 UTC
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In 2012, 95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ. Yet only about 16,500 kidney transplant operations were performed that year. Taking into account the number of people who die while waiting for a transplant, this implies an average wait of 4.5 years for a kidney transplant in the U.S.

The situation is far worse than it was just a decade ago, when nearly 54,000 people were on the waiting list, with an average wait of 2.9 years. For all the recent attention devoted to the health-care overhaul, the long and growing waiting times for tens of thousands of individuals who badly need organ transplants hasn't been addressed.

Finding a way to increase the supply of organs would reduce wait times and deaths, and it would greatly ease the suffering that many sick individuals now endure while they hope for a transplant. The most effective change, we believe, would be to provide compensation to people who give their organs - that is, we recommend establishing a market for organs.
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Airplane

Positioning for what? Rich Chinese continue to flee China

Robert Frank
CNBC
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:28 UTC
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Do the wealthy Chinese know something we don't?

A new report shows that 64 percent of Chinese millionaires have either emigrated or plan to emigrate - taking their spending and fortunes with them. The United States is their favorite destination.

The report from Hurun, a wealth research firm that focuses on China, said that one-third of China's super rich - or those worth $16 million or more - have already emigrated.

The data offer the latest snapshot of China's worrying wealth flight, with massive numbers of rich Chinese taking their families and fortunes overseas. Previous studies show the main reasons rich Chinese are leaving is to pursue better educations for their kids, and to escape the pollution and overcrowding in urban China.
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Pistol

Dollar store customer fatally shoots man who came into store waving gun

Lindsay Rogers
WSFA News
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:23 UTC
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New details are emerging in the investigation into a shooting at a Dallas County dollar store that ended with a gunman dead at the hands of a customer who decided to take action.

Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson has identified the gunman as Kevin McLaughlin from Orrville and the customer as Marlo Ellis, 37, also from Orrville.

The fatal shooting happened around 12:45 p.m. Thursday at the Dollar General on Highway 22 in Orrville.

Officials say McLaughlin walked into the store waving a gun in the air and forced a cashier and Ellis at gunpoint towards a break room.At that point, Ellis pulled out a concealed weapon and shot McLaughlin once in the chest.

"He escorted a customer who was trying to leave the store and a cashier toward a break room. The cashier went in first and the customer went in behind her, and the individual had the gun on the customer and the customer had a pistol concealed in a holster," Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said. "And when the customer got to the door, he turned around and shot the individual."

McLaughlin was pronounced dead at the scene. The tense ordeal played out in less than five minutes, police said.

Other customers and delivery men were inside the store at the time of the incident. Several customers making their way into the store saw McLaughlin waving a gun and ran away.
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